An eyewitness was entering the mall when she saw a crowd come running towards her.
She describes what she saw as a chaotic situation.
- They shouted "it's a shooting, it's a shooting" and we didn't understand anything.
Then we saw how shocked everyone was and stood in a corner, she says.
She continues:
- I was also involved in the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan in 2017, this feels very difficult.
A man who was also on his way into Emporia says that at first he thought it was an act of terrorism.
His wife was inside the mall.
- She heard a lot of shots and thought they were balloons, but when even more shots were heard, she ran outside.
"Heard people screaming"
Greta Vüays and Valeriia Boiko were in a shop near the shooting.
- Out of nowhere we heard people screaming.
I see a woman come in and shout 'gun, gun, run,' says Valeriia.
They say they hid in a store for about 20 minutes before they were able to get out.
- It felt worse when we went out, because then we understood what had happened, says Valeriia.
"Am I getting shot in the back now?"
Many people who came to Emporia by car cannot get their cars out because of the roadblocks.
- We come from Ystad and can pick up the car tomorrow.
Now we spend the night with dad, says Malin Weibull to SVT.
Malin, her partner and their nine-year-old daughter were sitting in a restaurant when people started running.
- There was a cluster that ran, then even more came.
They wondered what had happened.
Then we also started running.
Malin Weibull says that she was scared when the family ran out.
- I thought am I getting shot in the back now?
Then I thought about what would then happen to our nine-year-old daughter.
It was traumatic.